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If you’re anywhere close to Melbourne this weekend, get yourself down to PAX Australia 2018. Not only will it be a gaming paradise, with access to the latest titles, but there’s a very special car for those who love vehicles as well. As part of Microsoft’s promotion for Forza Horizon 4,...

An Israel-based startup Supersmart is trying to use deep learning algorithms to improve the shopping experience. The technology is designed to let you have the contents of your basket (and even shopping trolley) scanned without removing and repacking your goods at the point of sale. Supersmart have developed a...

Startups in France are doing some really interesting things and one out of Paris is Orbis Holographics. I had the chance to spend some time with their head of technology and find out more about their projection technology. The company makes screens and boxes that display video content from...

I love that we live in a world where a robot just made me a cocktail. OK technically it was a mock-tail, but still, the robot just made a drink, from a combination of liquids, after I selected a drink from the menu on a touchscreen. The company wasn’t...

Eric Schmidt has delivered a powerfully optimistic view of the world and the accelerating impact of technology at the Viva Technology conference in Paris. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know our industry is in a bit of a dilemma. As we continue to build smarter, faster...

Day 1 of the Viva Technology conference in Paris, France has arrived. The conference is massive in scale, not CES big, but anyone who’s been understand there’s large parts (sometimes who buildings) at CES that has nothing of value or interest. It seems the areas at VivaTech are zones...

Last night the amazing Paris City Town Hall played host to the VivaTech opening party. The night before the conference starts, hundreds of guests were treated to a gathering of speeches from key personnel, but also featured robots from a number of startups. The Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, spoke...

This week in Paris, France, one of Europe’s biggest conferences is taking place, VivaTech. This is a conferences that showcases the best of the world’s innovators and brings together tech-lovers and pioneers of the future, connecting startups with investors and has some of the industry’s biggest names on the...

TCL which stands for ‘The Creative Life’, was at CES 2017 this week to launch its new flagship products. Their new QUHD X2 series features Quantum Dot display technology (like Samsung), as well as Dolby Vision’s high-dynamicrange (HDR) technology, MEMC, Harman Kardon sound system and an ultra-thin, edgeless design. Like...

When you’re new to flying drones it can be overwhelming with the realisation you’ve got the potential to trash a multi-thousand dollar gadget. Market leader DJI have included a software simulator with their app for some time, but its incredibly basic. While the current simulator offers a 101 tutorial of control...

Razer has made big headlines over the past 24 hours with their announcement of a triple-screen laptop. This is actually not the first triple-screen laptop we’ve seen, but it is the world’s first to open automatically and to have 3x 4K displays. Razer has done a stellar job at creating ‘Project...

Microsoft really wants to be in your car. At CES, they unveiled their Connected Vehicle Platform where they want to provide the brains of a connected car, to auto makers. As with all good car platform announcements, they need to come with an announcement of partners who’ve signed up. So...

Its still a dream for many households to say goodbye to vacuuming forever, but Samsung’s latest robot vacuum may be the one for you. The POWERbot VR7000 just got announced at CES and offers a number of upgrades over previous models. The new unit features powerful suction and slim design...

The Consumer Electronics Show 2017 is now in full swing with the first of many press conferences from the top tech companies. Also my inbox is a disaster of product announcements, however one that stands out from the crowd is from Samsung. Samsung Electronics have announced today that its...

Faraday Future has just revealed its new car, the FF91 which will be their first production model. The event at CES is one of the most anticipated after the company talks a big game and so far has only announced a prototype race car, the FFZERO1. Faraday’s VP of...

Mobile chip designer Qualcomm has just detailed their latest processor, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835. This new system on a chip is based on new 10 nanometre architecture and despite being 35% smaller than the 820, it packs in a staggering 3 billion ultra-efficient transistors. Qualcomm says as we move...

Ford have put a stake in the ground and calling 2021 out as the year they’ll ship not just their first, but high-volume production of fully-autonomous vehicles. To get people excited, they’re bringing their latest generation Fusion Hybrid (should be fully electric already) autonomous development vehicle to CES and...

LGs third generation Super UHD TVs have been announced ahead of CES 2017. As we wait to see what the big new trend in TV is, LG are putting their stake in the ground and betting on Nano Cell technology and Active HDR. New LG models include the SJ9500, SJ8500...

Every new year is brought in with an array of fireworks set off in cities around the world. As a kid, the experience is shockingly amazing with explosions of bright colours, and a sound that rattles your rib cage. Year after year we watch in person on TV the...

It seems Lenovo couldn’t wait for CES 2017, they’ve set the benchmark for new laptops with the announcement of their new ThinkPad X1 Carbon. what was already regarded as one of the best on the market is getting even better. We’ll get to the details in a second, but first...

The PlayStation VR may not be available until October 13th, but that hasn’t stopped PlayStation from making a number of VR titles available for pre-order today. Following yesterday’s annual E3 Press Conference, PlayStation Australia have confirmed the 1st party launch titles for PlayStation VR (PS VR). The following 1st party software titles will be available...

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